Bosnian Serb nationalist leaders still oppose parts of the "peace
accord" reached in
Dayton, Ohio, last week. The deal, which divides Bosnia into two republics
under a weak central government, was agreed to by Serbian President Slobodon
Milosevic in their name; Bosnian Serb representatives refused to initial it
during a ceremony at Wright-Patterson Air Force base.

Bosnian Serb political leaders later acquiesced to the accord under heavy
pressure from Milosevic, according to media reports. By the weekend, though,
some Bosnian Serb leaders again criticized the plan and called for the future
of Sarajevo to be renegotiated. "The Dayton agreement will not live until a
solution is found for Sarajevo," said Momcilo Krajisnik, a leading Serb
hardliner. Radovan Karadzic demanded "special status" for Serb-occupied
districts of Sarajevo, and international protection for at least five years.
Such moves would cement the division of the city, diplomats told Reuters.
Karadzic also said a Serb assembly would have to ratify any deployment of NATO
troops.

But U.S. chief negotiator Richard Holbrooke and Defense Secretary William
Perry said Sunday the accord has already been accepted, and will not be
renegotiated.

Holbrooke also scoffed at Radovan Karadzic's claim he personally must
attend a formal signing ceremony in Paris on behalf of Bosnian Serbs. "They
[Karadzic and Gen. Mladic] won't be in Paris," Holbrooke said. "They are
indicted war criminals. If they set foot in Paris, or for that matter in any
European or American country, they will be arrested."

Under the Dayton agreement, Sarajevo is
supposed to be reunified, with Serb authorities ceding control of several
occupied districts including Grbavica, Vogosca and Ilidza. Sarajevans driven
from those areas early in the war now dream of returning home.

However, Serbs in those neighborhoods -- ethnically mixed before the war,
but "cleansed" of Muslims and Croats during the siege -- have demonstrated
daily against the plan, saying they will never submit to Bosnian rule and will
not leave. One demonstration blocked UN traffic into Sarajevo for hours.

Bosnian Serb commanding Gen. Ratko Mladic sent a statement to the
protesters, vowing that the Bosnian Serb Army would never desert them.

More than 10,000 Sarajevans have been killed in the Serb siege of the
city, most of them civilians. About 1,500 of the dead were children --
including many youngsters shot through the head by Serb snipers. Serb
nationalists besieging the city also murdered Sarajevans as they searched for
food and firewood, and waited on line for water.

The Serb sniping campaign against civilians has been called a war crime
by an international tribunal in the Hague.

The BBC notes that Serbs in occupied territories have been subject to a
steady barrage of vitriolic anti-Muslim propaganda, a major reason they fear
living under Bosnian government rule--even though tens of thousands of Serbs
remained in government-controlled parts of the city, victims of the Serb siege
along with Muslims, Croats, Jews, and others.

"Though some Bosnian Serbs were remorseful about the pounding their forces
gave the city during the war, others defiantly declared that if they couldn't
control the city, they should destroy it," Associated Press reports. Museums,
libraries, and other cultural landmarks were among the early targets of Serb
guns.

[03] THREAT TO IMPLEMENTATION?

BBC says Serb opposition to reunifying Sarajevo
casts further doubts on the Dayton accords. And, the Belgrade daily Politika
called hard-line Serb criticisms of the agreement "a very serious threat to
peace."

"Diplomats say the Serb moves augur badly for the chances of its complete
implementation," according to Reuters.

However, both Reuters and CNN speculate that Bosnian Serb nationalists
are not likely to immediately go back to war over the issue.

Ham-radio operators in Serb-besieged sectors
of Sarajevo say that the city is again without adequate supplies of natural
gas as bitter-cold weather hit the region. Gas is being rationed, with homes
receiving supplies only every second day; and even when gas is "on," pressure
is too weak to provide heat. Electricity remains severely rationed, and the
limited amount allocated per household prevents it being used for heat.
Firewood remains scarce and prohibitively expensive.

Pneumonia is widespread in the city, one ham reported.

Restoration of utilities to Sarajevo was supposedly a pre-condition to
peace negotiations in Dayton.

The Bosnian-Croat federation faces a "crucial test" in
Mostar this Friday, the Boston Globe reports, when Muslim women, children,
and men of non-military age are supposed to be given freedom of movement
throughout the city. They are now confined to what has become a war-ravaged
Muslim ghetto. By Jan. 20, Croat officials are supposed to allow all Muslim
men free movement as well.

"We are praying," European Union spokesman Dragan Gasic told the Boston
Globe. "We have had many documents signed here that have never been
implemented." The EU was supposed to reunify Mostar more than a year ago, but
the formerly ethnically mixed city remains divided. "In fact, politicians on
the Croatian side admit they have not give up on `Greater Croatia,'" the Globe
notes.

"My private wish is to live in the Republic of Croatia," Mile Puljic,
deputy mayor on the Croat side of the city, freely admitted to the Globe. "We
are frightened of the Muslims. There are too many of them."

The Dayton accords also call for Croat forces to give up territory near
Banja Luka won during a military
offensive several months ago, granting Serbs control over a dam generating
electricity for the city - the largest in Bosnia under Serb control.

Serb leaders in Banja Luka expressed support for the peace agreement.

More than half a million non-Serbs were murdered, imprisoned, or expelled
from the Banja Luka There is still no word on the fate of thousands of Muslim
men who "disappeared" when their families were expelled, despite promises by
Serb leaders that the men would be accounted for.

A small number of Bosnian Croats who had returned to their homes in
Mrkonjic Grad after Serb soldiers were driven out have been told by Croatian
militia that they must now leave their homes a second time, because of the
Dayton agreement. A hundred thousand people lived there before the war.

U.S. President Clinton has begun seeking
Congressional and public backing for committing 20,000 troops to a NATO force
that would implement the Dayton accords.

Opposition comes both from isolationists who believe American lives should
only be risked when America's security is directly threatened; and from some
Bosnia supporters irate that the Dayton deal will cement the ethnic partition
of what has long been a multi-cultural republic. Bosnian government officials,
however, have called for early implementation of the accord by NATO forces.

The Clinton administration argues that the security of Europe, the future
of NATO, and our own values and consciences require that the U.S. participate
in policing the deal it helped hammer out.

Several members of Congress say that if the mission is approved, the
U.S. must be prepared to accept risks -- and casualties. "We cannot ask our
soldiers to be courageous if our politicians are not," Sen. Bob Kerrey of
Nebraska told ABC-TV.

UN officials say about 200 Bosnian soldiers robbed a UN
base in Velika Kladusa, taking food, fuel, and nine armored vehicles, AP
reports. None of the Bangladeshi peacekeepers at the base were injured. UN
Gen. Rupert Smith sent a protest to the Bosnian Army and government.

Independent Oslobodjenje (11/22) front-paged this assessment by
Zija Dizdarevic, "It was a difficult task for Bosnian President
Izetbegovic, the leader of Bosnian Muslims--who are the biggest
victims of the aggression. The signature marks the beginning of
the end of the present Bosnia-Herzegovina. It will be a lasting
question as to whether the peace agreement provides possibilities
to establish Bosnia as a united state in a new form, or is the
division of Bosnia that they have signed....

"Possibly, (Milosevic) is satisfied because the signature enables
the existence of a smaller Greater Serbia, extending over half
the territory of the neighboring country. However, Milosevic
recognized the sovereignty of Bosnia-Herzegovina, and that is
important. Guessing the thoughts of Tudjman...is not hard. He
thinks the issue of Bosnia remains open.... What is there to say
about the international peace mediators from Dayton? Much evil
happened also because of them. They, especially the Americans,
should now demonstrate their readiness to help achieve--as
quickly as possible--the normalization of life. However, the
most important thing is to turn to the future of Bosnian
children."

Independent, French-language Le Temps said (11/22), "Despite the
official announcement made by the U.S. president, we will have to
wait and see the real value of this agreement, barely
concluded.... It is true that U.S. pressure contributed to the
success of the negotiations, but there should have been more
pressure on obtaining a just peace.... First reactions (to the
agreement) point to international endorsement for a peace
settlement. The implementation (of the agreement) on the ground
will certainly add to the credibility and effectiveness of the
Dayton accord."

The official Tehran Voice of the Islamic Republic of Iran radio
held (11/22), "Under the current conditions the main stands of
the international Contact Group come to light even more. They
have no qualms about showing their concordance with the Serbs by
granting more concessions and lifting the economic and political
sanctions on Serbia. This further isolates the Muslims. The
measures that have been taken by Western leaders to end the
Bosnian crisis speak of the recognition of unequal equations and
are a type of reward to the Serbs in that republic."

Left-of-center Republika front-paged this editorial by Miran
Staric (11/22), "Blackmailing by the American peace
mediators...has proven successful.... The Muslims and the Croats
have strengthened an alliance which does not exist; the Serbs
have agreed to co-existence with the Muslims and the Croats in a
country which does not exist; the Americans will send forces to
Bosnia to protect a peace which does not exist.... The borders
drawn by Tudjman, Milosevic and Izetbegovic...will satisfy no
one. They will become a lasting source of hatred, tinder for
extremists, and the basis for new Balkan wars.... If the
agreement does result in peace, the peace will be only temporary
because the agreement...eliminates motives for new conflicts
rather than the reasons which have caused (the war)."

"The News Of The Year"

The victors of the war, according to left-of-center, independent
Vecer's commentary by Bojan Bauman (11/22), are "the
Americans.... Even enemies as big as the leaders of the three
warring sides in Bosnia had to bend under the world policeman's
hand.... A solid basis has been formed in Dayton for replacing
weapons with diplomatic talks.... It is largely owing to the
Americans that the agreement is not a worthless piece of
paper.... Yesterday's end to the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina
is the news of the year. A good one!"

On BBC TV's Breakfast News (11/22), reporter Jeremy Cooke said
from Dayton, "For the American-led negotiators, it was victory
snatched from the jaws of defeat.... "The peace, if it sticks,
has been the result of a diplomatic offensive lead by America's
chief negotiator Richard Holbrooke."

"Biggest Foreign Policy Triumph Of Clinton Presidency"

The liberal Guardian's front-page lead said (11/22), "President
Clinton announced the biggest foreign policy triumph--and the
greatest political gamble--of his presidency yesterday, as he
moved to plunge 60,000 NATO troops into the Balkans to enforce
the historic but fragile Bosnia peace accord brokered, against
the odds, by his administration."

Political analyst Alain Duhamel maintained on Europe One Radio
(11/22), "Clinton scored a point, something which he needed at
home.... Either the Europeans manage to come up with a common
foreign policy, or the United States remains the only diplomatic
superpower."

"It's A Pity Europe Had To Fade Away"

Charles Lambroschini authored the front-page editorial of
conservative Le Figaro (11/22), "It is a pity that Europe has had
to fade away before the United States. Jacques Chirac is the one
who initiated renewed Western firmness. Alain Juppe, together
with Klaus Kinkel, are those who had come up with the plan which
served as a basis for the Dayton talks.... Since the fall of the
Berlin Wall, the Old Continent has remained under a U.S.
umbrella."

"Clinton's Biggest Diplomatic Success"

In the opinion of Stephane Marchand, in Washington for Le Figaro
(11/22), "This is the biggest diplomatic success in Bill
Clinton's presidency."

Joachim Holtz said in a commentary on national ZDF-TV (11/21),
"We must acknowledge President Clinton's efforts and thank the
Americans. They forced the opponents to conclude an agreement
with threats, persuasiveness, kicks and baits. But Europe
failed.... The war criminals should not get off scot-free."

"Skepticism Is Appropriate"

Washington correspondent Ingolf Karnahl commented (11/21) on
regional radio station Hessischer Rundfunk of Frankfurt, "Because
coercion and not insight was the godfather of the agreement,
skepticism is appropriate.... If this success, however, can be
maintained...Clinton will be the great peacemaker, but he will
also be the bogeyman if peace fails."

"A Peace Accord That Leaves Room For Continued Fighting"

Josef Joffe observed in an editorial in centrist Sueddeutsche
Zeitung of Munich (11/22), "In comparison to the U.S.-led
implementation force for Bosnia (IFOR), the U.S. monitoring force
in the Sinai was only a church choir. In an election year, this
IFOR must patrol a tactical swamp....

"This peace agreement leaves enough reasons to continue the
fighting: a defenseless diaspora here and a vulnerable corridor
there. "And what is even worse, the main victims of the
war--the Muslims--have to pay the brunt of the bill, since peace
means for them the loss of half their country, hundreds of
thousand of dead and expelled people and the forced community
with Croatia.... The United States and the Europeans, too, have
now shouldered a burden which they will not be able to shake off
that easily."

Paolo Garimberti's commentary in left-leaning, influential La
Repubblica judged (11/22), "The peace signed yesterday at
Dayton...will turn Bosnia into a condominium of quarrelsome
co-proprietors, with an internal structure that contains the
seeds of another Balkan war.... Instead of a stable formula to
make the various peoples of Bosnia live together peacefully, the
negotiations have produced a device to keep them divided under
the surveillance of 60,000 armed NATO troops.... Clinton's
speech yesterday...was emotionally very intense and politically
worthy of a statesman who feels he has restored to his country
the role of international leader and has ensured a perhaps
insuperable advantage to his presidency in view of the '96
elections. "Clinton termed the 'pax americana' for Bosnia a
'just distribution of the land' contended for among former
Yugoslavians. But this statement sounds hypocritical to the ears
of the Bosnians, who feel betrayed by their American protectors.
Richard Holbrooke, the American negotiator, has been nicknamed
the 'Kissinger of the Balkans' for his diplomatic style, composed
of sticks and carrots, honey and bile, passion and cynicism. In
light of the results at Dayton, the comparison appears to be as
appropriate as it is ominous."

"And America Saved Europe"

Under the headline above, Washington correspondent Vittorio
Zucconi filed for centrist La Stampa (11/22), "Christopher, truly
heroic in his physical effort of participating in two days of
negotiations, after a quick visit to Japan...guaranteed that
American troops would control the terrain and would shoot without
hesitation anyone who attacked them or was tempted to provoke
them....

"Clinton now needs congressional support as much as NATO needs
U.S. leadership.... But let's thank God, as Clinton is asking us
to do.... Even an unjust truce made of impossible territorial
corridors...is better than a war."

Independent Catholic De Standaard and independent Catholic Het
Nieuwsblad remarked (11/22), "The peace accord on Bosnia is
Clinton's most important success in his first term.... The game
of war and peace in the Balkans has made it clear that the
absence of American leadership is a recipe for chaos. The United
States is and remains this planet's single superpower and without
Washington's support, European diplomats achieve success nowhere.
After all, the latter were happy to pass the initiative on Bosnia
to the Americans.... Strengthened by the peace accord, Clinton
will again have to try to convince the Congress that sending
25,000 U.S. troops to Bosnia is in the country's national
interest. Those troops will have to be the backbone of the
international peace force in the former Yugoslavia. It is far
from certain that the Republicans will readily approve Clinton's
wishes."

Highest circulation Nepszabadsag observed (11/22), "The peace
agreement in Dayton helped to establish something that should
have been created five years ago by democratic negotiations:
territorial autonomy.... Western powers have gradually seized a
historic chance in Dayton: By implementing the peace accord,
NATO will be able to secure its long-term presence and influence
in this new geographic region. This was the most important issue
at the negotiating tables in Dayton; the settlement of the real
conflict was only of secondary importance."

Conservative Svenska Dagbladet commented (11/22), "The peace
process would never have begun had it not been for U.S.
initiatives. Seen in this perspective, the peace agreement is an
illustration of the fact that Europe is incapable of solving its
own problems.

"There are many indications to the effect that the peace
agreement is based on a delicate balance, a design that needs
continuing support from the international community, particularly
from the superpower that led the peace process, to ensure that it
will not collapse.

"The question now is whether the Americans will remain interested
in playing such an active role in the future. It did take quite
some time before they became actively involved in the peace
process. Once the Bosnian issue has been removed from the
agenda, there is a risk of the Americans quickly withdrawing from
the scene."

"Bad Agreement"

Liberal Dagens Nyheter remarked (11/22), "It has been said that a
bad peace is better than war. Everyone can see that former
Yugoslavia, regardless of what was said in Dayton, is approaching
a bad agreement that will legalize a development that came about
through plundering, mass murders, brutality and ethnic cleansing.
What will happen if there is peace? Nobody really has the
faintest notion, and there are no guarantees beyond what NATO can
achieve for the time being."

Liberal-left El Pais commented (11/22), "Washington's
uncontestable diplomatic success should not be overvalued. It is
very probable that, at least, one of the contenders will harbor
hopes and expectations to change the [agreed on] maps and
positions in his favor and against his neighbor and enemy when he
thinks the time is ripe and he feels strong enough to do it.
However, Clinton now must be able to impose on Congress the
presence of American troops on the ground. Otherwise the deal
could be considered defunct already."

"Peace In The Balkans"

Conservative ABC held (11/22), "Clinton, exercising no other
capacity but common sense, managed to halt a war unchained by
Serbia...to kill at birth Bosnia-Herzegovina as an independent
country. He has done so by using the language of force, the only
discourse which the Serbian criminal aggressors could understand
after the cowardly passivity of a Europe gagged by its own fears.
The United States has taught Europe the great lesson that the
aggressor only heeds bombs in order to come to the negotiating
table.... If peace really comes, the world would have
fortunately put an end to one of history's blackest episodes."

Pro-business Joong-Ang Ilbo noted (11/22), "The United States had
to use its influence to get an agreement in Dayton. What the
parties agreed to, however, was incomplete; it will not be enough
to bring peace back in the former Yugoslavia. A lot more effort
will still have to be made before a true peace agreement can come
about."

Mostar, Nov 25, 1995 (Press TWRA) - At today's press conference
in Mostar, Kresimir Zubak explained the resignation he offered=20
to the post of the president of the B-H Federation. The agreement
reached at the Wright Patterson is acceptable in its general part
and ten annexes but unfavorable for Bosniaks and Croats in annex
referring to the maps of the separation lines within its borders,
particularly in Bosanska posavina. That was the reason for him
and the member of the B-H presidency Ivo Komsic not to agree with
the proposed peace plan. Jadranko Prlic (B-H vice-president)
signed the Dayton agreement, on behalf of Federation, although it
is only the president of Federation who authorized to do that,
Zubak stresses. He mentioned that the fate of the part of
Bosanska posavina attached to "Serb entity" should be decided by
those who lived there before the war. If the Republic of B-H
Assembly, Constitutional Assembly of the B-H Federation and the
House of the representatives of "Herzeg Bosnia" accept the map of
the interior separation of the B-H Union created at the talks in
Ohio, the announced resignation to the post of the president of
the B-H Federation will be irrevocable, president Zubak stresses.

In this week's program of Croatian TV, Croatian defence
minister Gojko Susak said that the delegations of Croatia and B-H
in Dayton demanded: either to stick to the map of the Contact
group plan or a change of the ratio determined by the same plan
between the Federation and the Serb entity ("Republika Srpska") -
51% : 49%. Finally, the Contact group map was not maintained but
the 51% : 49% ratio was. /end/ A.S.=20

Sarajevo, Nov 25, 1995 (Press TWRA) - On the occasion of the B-H
statehood day, a ceremonial meeting was held in Sarajevo. The
meeting was attended by leading officials of Bosnian policy,
culture and public life. In the speech delivered at the meeting a
member of the B-H presidency and the vice-president of the B-H
Federation Ejup Ganic said: " Our homeland Bosnia-Herzegovina has
defended itself and survived both as a concept and a state.
Today's holiday is the heritage of our fight against fascism but
it also reminds us of our thousand-year-long statehood. Just
finished Dayton talks have proved that the peace could be reached
only if integral B-H is maintained. The time is on our side now.
We will keep sustaining inviolable right for private property,
develop our economy with a lot of promising potential. Particular
attention will be paid to schooling and education and
strengthening the army. We call our Serb fellow townsmen who did
not take part in the atrocities to join us in the joint
establishing of a free society."

During the ceremony the song "The only, only one," was
played. The song was yesterday proclaimed the national anthem of
Bosnia-Herzegovina by the presidency of the Republic at their
yesterday's session. /end/ A.S.

Velika Kladusa, Nov 25, 1995 (Press TWRA) - Foreign ministers of
B-H, Croatia and Turkey, Bakir Alispahic, Ivan Jarnjak and Teoman
Unusan, respectively, visited today the town of Velika Kladusa,
north of the Bihac region, and Kuplensko, a nearby settlement in
Croatia where the refugees from that area - followers of the
collaborationist F. Abdic are placed. Three ministers discussed
chances for a number of the refugees who have not returned yet to
V. Kladusa to go back without being forced to, but also without
the talks with Abdic who tries to take advantage of the refugee
crisis to strengthen his political influence in that part of B-H.
To make the refugees in V. Kladusa feel secure, combined police
forces of B-H, Croatian and Turkish police were engaged./end/=20

Dubrovnik, Nov 25, 1995 (Press TWRA) - Members of the opposition
parties in the furthest southern, famous Croatia's town of
Dubrovnik have taken action of collecting signatures and other=20
democratic actions to express their disapproval of the intention
of president Tudjman to exchange territories and give the cape of
Ostro, semi peninsula of Prevlaka and some villages in Konavle,
to Montenegro in exchange for a part of Trebinje county placed
within "Serb entity" in the neighbouring B-H, to be attached to
Croatia. Tudjman holds such option acceptable as the part on the
south of eastern Herzegovina is currently held by Croat army, in
the mountainous area of the Dubrivnik hinterland from which the
town was threatened and its defence is hard. The cape of Ostro
and semi peninsula of Prevlaka are unpopulated but strategically
significant for Montenegro (and "FR Yugoslavia) due to the=20
control of the access to the Boka Kotorska Bay and Tudjman finds
such a pressure and tension with Belgrade not needed as he wants
to normalize relations with it. Opposition parties stress that
honesty of Croatian policy would be affected by the trade with
territory of the neighbouring B-H and giving Croatian territory=20
- dignity of Croatian army. Besides, a dangerous precedent of
violating the internationally recognized borders in southern
Europe would be made. /end/ A.S.

Tehran, Nov 25, 1995 (Press TWRA) - Iranian president Hashemi A.
Rafsanjani condemned the Dayton peace plan saying "such immature
and strange division does not protect Muslim interests in B-H."
Iranian president also announces his state as the first among a
number of states to help the B-H development and reconstruction.

It is little likely for Iranian units to be allowed to take
part in the IFOR's OPERATION in Bosnia as it was said that states
which are not NATO members can be deployed only on condition that
their system complies with western democratic formula and the USA
would probably not include Iran in the group. /end/ A.S.

Sarajevo, Nov 26, 1995 (Press TWRA) - Asked about the resignation
offered by the head of B-H diplomacy Sacirbey, prime minister
Silajdzic says:"Sacirbey offered resignation, to the president of
govt. not to me being in accord with the procedure. Asked why he
did that, Silajdzic said "you should ask Sacirbey about it."

Relationship Silajdzic-Sacirbey, the leading B-H diplomats
from the time when B-H was internationally recognized and Greater
Serbian aggression launched, has become bad from this summer when
SDA (Party of Democratic Action) appointed Sacirbey as B-H
foreign minister. Silajdzic is the SDA deputy chairman but has a
dispute with most leading officials of the party. On the B-H TV,
about then resignation of the prime minster Silajdzic (withdrawn
on recommendation of A.Izetbegovic), Sacirbwey said: "Just
imagine, Silajdzic criticized me saying that I cannot speak
Bosnian well." Born in B-H and grown up abroad, Sacirbey was
educated in English. He speaks Bosnian making occasional mistakes
in grammar and accent. /end/ A.S.

Paris, Nov 26,1995 (Press TWRA) - French foreign minister Herve
de Charette warned the troops from European states, particularly
the French ones, they would not stay in Bosnia when the US troops
withdrew."It is a simple rule we will stick to. We, Europeans and
Americans will arrive at and leave Bosnia together, within the
IFOR troops. The option for Washington to have its soldiers back
home before the presidential elections and leave our troops
deployed in B-H, is ruled out," says de Charette.

Washington - US defence secretary Perry announced first US
soldiers in Bosnia in the middle of December. It can take months
to deploy them. After that, US troops would stay 6 to 7 months.

Moscow - Russia demanded from NATO that each use of force
during the IFOR operation to Bosnia be decided with the approval
of Moscow which should be consulted before the operation.

Minister Kozirev rejects criticism of Russian public due to
Russian reservation and not vetoing the UN Security Council
Resolution lifting the arms embargo on the area of ex-Yugoslavia
including B-H. Head of Serb diplomacy M. Milutinovic asked Russia
on the phone not to stop lifting the embargo as the US ambassador
to the UN would veto suspension of the sanctions against
Belgrade. Russian media criticize warning that the lifting the
embargo is permanent while sanctions are only suspended and can
be reimposed.

The Hague - Dutch govt has announced 7O liaison specialists
and 2O commandos next month as advance guard of total of 2,5OO
Dutch within IFOR troops.

Ljubljana - Slovenian foreign minister Z. Thaler released
that Slovenia was included in NATO's "Partnership for Peace"
program ready to aid NATO operation in establishing peace to B-H
although it would not, for history reasons, send its troops to=20
B-H. Slovenian will enable transit of the IFOR equipment and
staff via Slovenia and its air space, says Thaler. /end/ A.S.

Den Haag, Nov 26, 1995 (Press TWRA) - International Criminal
Tribunal for ex-Yugoslavia (ICTY) expresses its satisfaction over
the Dayton agreement as it does not imply amnesty for the war
criminals. ICTY says the peace agreement in the part related to
the Tribunal is in accord with the Security Council resolutions.

US correspondent of Croatian independent daily "Novi List",
V. Krsnik writes that three presidents in Dayton did not take the
responsibility to unambiguously extradite the indicted, among
whom S. Milosevic might appear. Croatian politician M. Mestrovic
who lived in the USA for a long time, says the US administration
has evidence for Milosevic's crimes but does not want to release
it now since Milosevic is needed as a pragmatic shortcut on the
way to peace. The USA will release the evidence if he becomes
disobedient, Mate Mestrovic says.

The Amnesty International US branch warns that IFOR has task
to arrest the indicted war criminals if they come across them but
does not have to find and arrest them during the operation. ICTY
does not have its own troops to find and arrest the suspects, so
their fate depends on the authorities in Zagreb, Belgrade and
Sarajevo. Belgrade and Zagreb, after the indictments against Serb
and Croat political and military leaders, already announced they
will not extradite them, as their Constitutions do not allow
extradition of their citizens to other states' courts. Yet, ICTY
is the international, not a court of some other state. /end/ A.S.

Pale, Nov 26, 1995 (Press TWRA) - R. Karadzic has accepted the
peace plan, unlike his close associate M. Krajisnik who he was
imprisoned with, due to stealing in ex-Yugoslavia. Krajisnik
regards the plan harmful for Serbs and Karadzic mainly acceptable
but opposes to the solution to Sarajevo. Serb civilians, these
days (women and children, used in the past few years to prevent
humanitarian convoys from reaching eastern Bosnian enclaves)
protested in western suburbia of Sarajevo, Serb taken at the
outbreak od war, and the Dayton agreement plans it to be attached
to Federation. "We will not give away Serb land" demonstrators.
shouted. The plan foresees Serb withdrawal from Ilidza, Vogosca,
Nedarici, Hadzici, Ilijas, Grbavica, while "Serb entity" would
maintain Vrace, the Kasindol str., the Lukavica barracks and Mt.
Trebevic's top from which they usually shelled Sarajevo.

Karadzic said for BBC that Sarajevo would be Beirut, and
another war would start if Serb demand for renewal of talks about
its division was not accepted. Karadzic said for WTN that many
IFOR soldiers would be killed if the solution was enforced: "They
cannot come here and determine our fate."

Washington - R. Holbrooke said for NBC that Serb demands for
Sarajevo would not be considered at all. To journalist's claim
that 18O,OOO Serb soldiers are deployed there, Holbrooke says: "
Our intelligence services say that the number is three to four
times as less and the IFOR soldiers will be additionally armed
and resolute not to be jeopardized by highwaymen. /end/ A.S.